Using Find/Change

I'm old enough that I remember manually searching through all the text in a…document for one word and replacing it with another all by eye hoping I…didn't miss one instance.…And all I can say is thank goodness for the Find/Change feature which lets me do…it all now in a single click.…You can find Find/Change by going to the Edit menu and choosing Find/Change, or…press Command+F or Ctrl+F on Windows.…There are a lot of options in the Find/Change dialog box, but I'm going to focus…just on the basics here, Find what and Change to.…

Let's say I want to search for the word Egypt.…All I have to do is type Egypt here, and when I click Find, it finds the…first instance of Egypt. It's down here.…Let me zoom in on that;…Command+Spacebar or Ctrl+Spacebar, drag over that, and we can see that it did in…fact find the word Egypt, but inside of another word.…That's not what I was intending.…I wanted to find the whole word Egypt.…But fortunately, InDesign lets me change the scope of what it's searching for,…and it's all based on these little buttons down here.…

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5/7/2012

InDesign is an essential tool for design firms, ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and freelance designers around the world. This course presents the core features and techniques that make this powerful page layout application fun and easy to use. Author David Blatner shows how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents and pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and print finished documents, explore creating interactive documents, and much more. He also covers popular topics such as EPUBs and long documents and includes advice on working with overset text, unnamed colors, and other troublesome issues that may arise for first-time designers.